Listen to the new episode of Citizen Radio and subscribe to the free podcast. Jamie talks about sobriety, followed by Allison and Jamie discussing this Guardian editor’s terrifying column about officials threatening the paper with censorship, Ray Kelly being wrong about Stop & Frisk saving lives, more effects of the sequestration, California inmates being force-fed, and the U.S. government quietly cutting [...]

Listen to the new episode of Citizen Radio and subscribe to the free podcast. Allison and Jamie discuss this much-talked about piece on quinoa that appeared on the Guardian website, Deadspin is awesome, Notre Dame finally makes a statement…about a pretend lady, Jon Stewart is awful during Zero Dark Thirty interview, and GQ manages to be both racist and sexist. Citizen [...]

Note from Allison: This is made all the more perverse by the fact that the US is set to give $900 million in aid to Gaza, while also giving $30+billion in aid to Israel. We’re giving aid to one side in order to rebuild the shit that gone blown up by the other side, who [...]

Democracy Now/GuardianUK/Reuters Meanwhile, the US has been forced to cancel a weapons shipment to Israel after the Greek government refused to allow it to pass through its ports. The US says it will seek an alternative site. ### guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 January 2009 The Pentagon has suspended the delivery of a shipload of munitions to [...]

Guardian UK The headquarters of the UN refugee agency was on fire today after coming under attack as Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza City, unleashing the heaviest shelling of densely packed neighbourhoods since the military operation began nearly three weeks ago. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, expressed “strong protest and outrage” and demanded an investigation [...]